Oracle Advanced Security (formerly Advanced Networking Option) provides a suite of security features to protect a company's network by providing network encryption, authentication solutions, single sign-on services, and support for other security protocols.

A new option to Oracle Database 10g Release 2 Enterprise Edition that lets you control who, when, and where data and applications can be accessed, protecting against the most common security threat like malicious internal users.

Oracle has now replaced Standard Edition and Standard Edition One with just Standard Edition 2 (SE2). With SE2 you can only run on a maximum of 2 sockets. This also means on a 2 node SE2 RAC cluster you can have only one socket on each server. SE2 is licensed by occupied sockets. You need one processor license for each socket containing a processor up to a maximum of 2 sockets.

Oracle XE is a free version of Oracle that is limited to 1 processor, 1 GB RAM and 4 GB of data (for 10gR2) or 11 GB of data (11gR2). It is also limited to 1 database on a computer, since the database must be named XE which must be unique.

Track hardware and software configuration for hosts and databases plus cloning for database instances and Oracle home to facilitate deployments. Implement Policies, including Security checks and scoring.